“SKY”
SKY is a one hour real-time performance created and performed by Katie Duck (Amsterdam) and Sharon Smith (Devon), in collaboration with cellist Ben Roberts (Devon).
The piece is performed with text, movement, music and a film that fills the room with silent, slow moving images of skies.
With a laptop in the space, Katie and Sharon develop their text challenging AI with questions: “What is nothing”? ”Do you have emotions”? “What happens when we die”?
“Sky” explores ancient stories of skies in tandem and in company with our current cosmic confusion. Their correspondence results in a tender playful dialogue, gently funny, absurd, and not afraid of the dark.
“SKY” one hour
“Abandon Human (ship wreck)”
Abandon Human is a structured play. Two woman on a cruise ship who get caught in a storm. They celebrate their survival with text, story telling, songs and movement accompanied by a pre-recorded sound score full of chaos and songs—particularly songs written by women, for men
Their text expresses their survival and their experiences of having a child, the most vivid, unbearable emotion… Irretrievable loss. You cannot put them back in, once they have torn them from your belly via vagina or scalpel, they set in motion a certain grief… a slow, life-long, death-looming loss. They leave you and leave you and leave you. And that is your job. To help them do just that. The love is so strong that you can deal with their shit, their piss, their selfishness and their hatred… of you.
Abandon Human (ship wreck) 50 minutes
